THE PEACH STONE: STORIES FROM FOUR DECADES (1967 First Edition, Inscribed Presentation Copy in Dust Jacket - Paul Horgan's Acclaimed Collection, Association Copy)

The Peach Stone: Stories from Four Decades by Paul Horgan. Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 1967. First edition. A rich collection of twenty stories selected by the author written across four decades, spanning from 1930 to 1966. Includes notable pieces such as "The Peach Stone", "The Devil in the Desert", and "The Surgeon and the Nun". This special copy is warmly inscribed on the front endpaper by Paul Horgan in 1967. Octavo, black cloth boards, original dust jacket, 412 pages. It is in Inscribed and Signed Presentation Copy from the library of Thomas Catron III, in Santa Fe, NM by Paul Horgan ("To / Tom / with all dusted regards / Paul / 1967"), Original Dust Jacket; a desirable signed association copy from one of the major literary chroniclers of the American Southwest. This collection gathers twenty stories written across nearly forty years of Horgan’s career. The volume includes early and later work reflecting his distinctive blend of Southwestern atmosphere, human drama, and historical insight. Several stories in the collection had previously appeared in major anthologies such as Best Short Stories of Twenty Five Years and Best Short Stories of Fifty Years. …